The Farnese letter
30 points by grigolin 2 days ago | 5 comments
raphlinus 2 hours ago
I had a sense. Pangram identifies this as AI.
replyuserbinator 2 hours ago
Definitely, although a bit less annoying to read than the usual level of Claudish, so it was either edited or the AI is improving.
replyesafak 58 minutes ago
I knew it was going to be cryptography. Everybody's cracking something these days. See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49738551
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More seriously, this looks like the context modeling that advanced compression algorithms do, but in reverse.
Recovering the key does not settle the text.
That said, the Claudish in this article is only slightly annoying.